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**Odo_de_StAmand** · 31-01-2012, 18:02

BBC News - French Rafale jet beats Eurofighter in $10bn India deal

FFS

Odo

**Le_addeur_noir** · 31-01-2012, 18:07

P45s all round at waste-of-space,then.

**History_Man** · 31-01-2012, 18:14

Personally, I am not surprised. India's got a fairly big fleet of Mirage 2000s (60+ ?), so buying Rafale makes sense in terms of the support package from Dassault. Also, the Indian AF are used to operating French aircraft. The way things are going with the F-35, the FAA might become used to operating French aircraft too

**Manley** · 31-01-2012, 21:40

No they have not bought it, yet, it is not a done deal at this time and more horse trading is yet to be done. India wants Typhoon but will dicker about pricing while threatening to buy Frog stuff, classic.

**chocolate_frog** · 01-02-2012, 09:27

It doesn't really bother me if they buy French or British.

What does bother me is that a country that needs so much aid (from Britain and others) is buying these things in the first place.

$10bn bill for these things? You telling me they could do with out a few and only spend $9bn, with the remainder going on their own poor? Or a space station.

**PrinceAlbert** · 01-02-2012, 09:40

Why? He's only rated second in the ATP world rankings. They should have bought Novak instead.

**fozzy** · 01-02-2012, 09:40

So the French had more brown envelopes than the Eurofighter consortium. All those Indian "Systems Integrators" won't bribe theirselves you know!

**Mr_Deputy** · 01-02-2012, 11:01

Think they still want Typhoon. Hope it works out. although won't they be paying with...the money we gave em?

Novak?...they could have got Van Persie for £25m.

**Rawhide** · 01-02-2012, 11:05

My shares will take a hit on the back of that news, as BAE is known here: Big Arrogant Expensive.

Maybe Pakistan will buy some, or perhaps another massive export like Austria for what, 8 aircraft? Ireland? Isle of Man? Jamaica?

What a joke, FFS.

**Plant-Pilot** · 01-02-2012, 11:21

Strange how we give India aid, they buy French aircraft to put on their carrier and we don't have any aircraft on our carrier(s), and won't have for a long time.

If this isn't proof that we shouldn't be spending our money on aid for countries like India, I don't know what is.

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